Preston Foster — Actor (24)
The 42nd Street Special (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The 42nd Street Special
As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the assistance of the General Electric Corporation, assembled a 7-car gold- and silver-plated train they called "The 42nd. Street Special". With numerous Warner Bros. contract stars as passengers, the train made a tour across the USA. It was scheduled to make stops in more than 100 cities, ending in Washington, D.C. for the March 1933 inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This short film records the send-off for this trip from Los Angeles' Santa Fe Station. Using a microphone set up on the rear platform of the last car, several people addressed the crowd attending the event. Those making remarks include performers, studio executives, and the mayor of Los Angeles.
You Said a Mouthful (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
You Said a Mouthful
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Joe E. Brown / Ginger Rogers
other title: Badenixe / À tour de brasses
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
The Marshal's Daughter (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Marshal's Daughter
director: William Berke actor: Laurie Anders / Hoot Gibson
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."
Thunder Birds (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Thunder Birds
other title: Pilotes de chasse / Águilas de fuego
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
Tomahawk (1951) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Tomahawk
other title: 碧血红羽 / 碧血红羽(台)
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Rob Dancy are all too likely to provide this. Meanwhile, Bridger's chance of preventing catastrophe is dimmed by equally wrenching personal conflicts. Unusually accurate historically.
Strange Triangle (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Strange Triangle
director: Ray McCarey actor: Signe Hasso / Preston Foster
other title: 路柳牆花 / Aventura fatal
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
Love Before Breakfast (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Love Before Breakfast
director: Walter Lang actor: Carole Lombard / Preston Foster
other title: A Ceias das Donzelas / Ce que femme veut ?
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
Two Seconds (1932) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Two Seconds
director: 梅尔文·勒罗伊 actor: Edward G. Robinson / Edward G. Robinson
other title: Zwei Sekunden / Dos segundos
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl dupe a high rise riveter into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
I, the Jury (1953) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
I, the Jury
director: 哈里·埃塞克斯 actor: Biff Elliot / Preston Foster
other title: 神秘谋杀案 / Der Richter bin ich
It's nearly Christmas, but Mike Hammer is on the vengeance trail when Jack, his wartime buddy, is murdered. Hotheaded Hammer sets out to find the killer, working his way through an increasingly large pile of suspects (and corpses). Along the way, he meets a new love interest, psychologist Charlotte Manning, a treacherous Santa, a gangster named Kalecki, and two weird sisters, the Bellamy twins.
Law and Order (1953) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Law and Order
director: 纳森·朱兰 actor: 罗纳德·里根 / 罗素·约翰逊
other title: 虎将歼霸战 / 法律与秩序
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
Kansas City Confidential (1952) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kansas City Confidential
director: 菲尔·卡尔森 actor: 约翰·佩恩 / 李·范·克里夫
other title: 边城蒙面侠 / 滚轴溜冰
A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.